environmental chemist and air quality specialist

senior specialst, manager, consultant, advisor in energy/environment/power/infrastructure/natural resources/ oil and gas/international companies

egyptian environmental effairs egency
air quality monitoring network manager-environmental researcher, december 2007 –Present.
selected job duties
•working with the Japanese counterpart in REMIP-JICA.
•wanaging the air quality monitoring network and supervising the universities and agencies responsible for maintenance.
•data Analysis (statistical analysis and interpretation).
•currently working in renewing and extending the current air quality monitoring network.
•preparing the monthly and annual reports to the minister. In addition to other air quality reports.
•apply my knowledge to solve problems in air pollution control and mitigation methods. Consult and collaborate with agencies, professionals or researchers interested in the air quality issues.
•constructing a modeling team to create an air quality modeling department.
•teach lectures (independently) at different universities about air pollution and environmental awareness.
•modeling the trace gases.
Desert Research Institute (DRI) Reno Campus, Nevada USA
Research Assistant August 2001 – November 2007
Selected Projects:
•modeling the Effect of Mountainous Terrain on Regional Climate, Natural Hazards and Air and Water Quality
•cairo Air Improvement Project (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons)
•atlanta Health Study (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Hopanes and steranes and polar organic compounds).
•IMPROVE (Organic Mass, Organic Carbon and Elemental Carbon)
•measurement the wood smoke tracers in Las Vegas (Polar organic Compounds).
Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA)
Environmental Researcher March 1998-August 2001
Selected Job Duties
Working in different international projects and international donors such as: Cairo Air Improvement Project (CAIP-USAID), Environmental Monitoring Training Project (EMTP-JICA).
Industrial Inspection.
Air pollutants Analysis.
Air quality analysis team management.
Training the new employees.

Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences (Fall 2007) University of Nevada Reno, United States of America.
Dissertation Title: Theoretical and Modeling Studies of the Atmospheric Chemistry of SOx and HOx Systems
M.Sc. in Atmospheric Sciences (Fall 2004), University of Nevada Reno, United States of America.
Thesis Title: Determination of the Organic Mass to Organic Carbon Conversion Factor for Urban and Rural Areas.
B.Sc. in Chemistry (May 1997), Cairo University, Egypt, with Very Good and Honors.

American Geophysical Union
Air and Waste management Association
American Meteorological Society
American Chemical Society.

El-Zanan, H.S., D.H. Lowenthal, B. Zielinska, J.C. Chow, and N. Kumar, 2005: Determination of the organic aerosol mass to organic carbon ratio in IMPROVE samples. Chemosphere, 60(4), 485- 496.
El-Zanan, H.S., Rinehart, H., Hansen, D.A., and Zielinska , B. Measurements of the Aerosol Organic Mass-to-Organic Carbon Ratio and Chemical Characterization of Atmospheric Aerosol in Support of Atlanta Health Study: Particulate and Multiphase Organics that has been submitted to the Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association. in press.
El-Zanan, H.S., Labib, W.M., Khalil, M. K., and Gertler, A.W., 2006 Concentration and Distribution of Ambient PAHs in the Greater Cairo Area. Conference paper AWMA New Orleans manuscript#106
Annual Guide for Environmental Data and Indicators-Air Quality (2008). Book prepared for Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) in cooperation with Ministry of the Environment, Land & Sea (Italy). P.145-170.